After 10 decades of continuous use, Gilman Hall, the Johns Hopkins University’s flagship building and the heart of the Homewood campus, is undergoing a bold, ambitious renovation that will enhance and revitalize this historic structure while dramatically transforming it into an incubator for the humanities of the 21st century. With this website, we offer an ongoing insider’s look at the renovation, with a view to the construction itself and the myriad stories that reside within this 92-year-old building. We invite you to visit regularly and enjoy a new story on or about the 15th of each month, and we encourage you to share your own Gilman stories and memories. We look forward to sharing the renovation’s progress and celebrating with you the opening of the new Gilman Hall in the fall of 2010. |
Revealing Progress »As the weather cools, the work inside Gilman Hall continues to heat up. More importantly, the finished product has begun to take shape. In particular, the past few weeks have featured a lot of precision work with heavy glass. Notably, crews carefully fitted into place the hundreds of glass panels into the 60-foot by 60-foot glass skylight that will top Gilman’s new atrium space. Next up will be the installation of two vertical glass walls at each end of the skylight, and the stringing of stainless steel tension cables underneath the structure. The renovation crew hopes to have the atrium completely sealed to the elements by the first week of December so that work can progress inside the interior courtyard unaffected by winter weather...[MORE] |
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